| “Bring the GREAT PUMPKIN to your house”
Invitations
There are great websites out there to order fancy invitations, but if you want to save money and make them yourself, here are some ideas:
- Make your own invitation on your computer. Halloween Invitation
- Cauldron Invite:
 (click on photo for printable)
Decorations
- Black Lights, fake spider webs, smoke machines, fake spiders, pumpkins, ghosts, etc.
- Get a bunch of medium/small size pumpkins (for the children to decorate eventually.) Set them all around your house. When the craft is ready to begin, send the children around to “find their own pumpkin.”
- Hand sheets all around (from your ceiling, lamps, etc.) Use fans to have them blowing like ghosts.
- “Finger” Food - Make pigs in a blanket (cocktail wieners and cut up cresent rolls.) After they are out of the oven and cooled, add a finger nail with some ketchup to each one.
- Halloween Punch – Make your favorite punch and place in a punch bowl. All you need to do is add ice cubes and “doll arms and legs.” You can purchase these arms and legs at your favorite craft store.
- Dirt Dessert - Create this fantastic dessert that kids and adults will love!!
Favors/ Prizes
- PRIZES: Creepy gummy things (you know how they sell gummy rats, fingers, etc.) Goody bags of candy, Halloween masks, pumpkin carving kits, Halloween books, etc. Dollar stores are stocked full of creepy things ( I was just there!)
- You can purchase cauldron’s at the $ store and fill them with candy.
- See Crafts: each of these can be created and taken home as favors!
Games
- Spider, Spider, Spider, WEB – The Halloween version of duck, duck, goose. To make it more interesting the person that is “IT” can drop a fake spider web on the person they want to chase them!
- Costume contest – Each child comes in costume and you can be the judge. Give every child an award certificate, so they all get prizes. You can label them : most creative, scariest, funniest, cutest, most original, creepiest, most imaginative, bloodiest, happiest, etc. AWARD CERTIFICATE
- Spider in the haystack – Get a tarp or use your driveway. Spread a bunch of hay around and hide fake spiders in the hay. Have the kids find as many spiders as they can in 5 minutes. The winner receives a prize!!
- Donut race – Hang donuts, with holes (tie string around them) from your ceiling or even outside from a tree. See who can eat the whole donut the fastest (NO HANDS – you even have to eat the piece that fell on the floor.)
- Spider Tag – You will need a couple “POOL NOODLES – the ones that help you float.” Have the person that is “IT” put his hands behind his back. Tuck the 2 Noodles through his arms. He has to run around the try to tag kids with the noodles. NO HANDS!!!
- Pumpkin Toss – Each child needs a partner. Give each team a pumpkin and have them stand across from each other. Have the kids toss the pumpkins between them taking a step back each toss. The team that does not drop their pumpkin is the winner!
- Cartoon Villains Game
Crafts
- Lollipop Ghosts – the kids each get a lollipop, some string and a napkin or tissue. They decorate the napkin with a face. You can then cover the lollipop with the napkin and tie the string around it. Voila – a ghost!
 
- Pumpkin Painting – Have the kids search around your house and “pick their pumpkin” (see Decorations.) You can set this activity up outside if the weather permits. They can use their creativity to create their very own pumpkin to take home. Make sure you get other things besides paint: feathers, glitter, colored glue, pipe cleaners, shells, sequins, etc.
- Create Trick-or-Treat bags – You can purchase paper bags with handles at your local $ for about 50 cents a piece. The kids can decorate these (with all the extra supplies left over from Pumpkin painting.)
- Glove Hands –You will need plastic gloves, popcorn, candy corn, string and spider rings. Have the kids each get a glove and put a piece of candy corn in each finger (to signify the finger nail.) They then fill the glove with popcorn and tie a string around the bottom (to close it.) The kids can put the spider rings on the fingers. This is a great snack and craft mixed into one!
- Scarecrow Making –You need old clothes from your local thrift store, a bail of hay and some string or twine. The kids can each grab a shirt, a pair of pants, stuff hay into them and tie the sleeves with the string. They can use their Pumpkins they painted as heads!
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